White again? Tell that to non-white people who lived here for thousands of more years than any white people ever did. The picture is a photoshop, and it was kinda funny at first, less so now that it turns out to have been true. Hard to do satire with this caliber of idiocy.

Field, remind me not to try to verify some historical event here. I tend to get responses from one "anonymous" or other telling me it's false. As if that's all I needed, some troll giving me the word (usually with a gratuitous insult into the bargain).

That story about the mass lynching in Arkansas in 1919 was real, after all. It was written up by a historian in February 2015 as a result of the publication of a report by the Equal Justice Initiative and appeared on Huffington Post, The Daily Beast and several other sites. The only issue seems to be the number of lynchings--whether it was 237 as claimed, or more, or less. Wikipedia called it the "Elaine Race Riot":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_race_riot

Nobody wants to debate ancient history here, I'm sure--what's past is past. But it reminds me of what Russians used to say vis a vis their news agency TASS in the old USSR, that's becoming more and mroe true here: "The news is not true" (The Clinton Foundation "scandals" and half the innuendos published by the NY Times) and "the truth is not news" (the Elaine Riot).

@My Puppets: Hardly worth replying, except to point out that you are making the assumption that the murders weren't written about at the time (they were), and researched intermittently many times thereafter. If you'd looked at the articles I'd cited that would be obvious. What isn't obvious is that you're worth the trouble of this reply.

Wow! It's very commendable what Mrs. Clinton is doing, she's as they say,'taking one for the team' I guess 'cos no one else wanted to run.

But she looks pretty sick to me there today! Struggling to make it to the car,where her knees buckled and she almost fell and lost a shoe. She really has to take it easy and rest and manage her condition whatever it may be! Definitely she is quite unwell and this can't be good for her!

Feel bad for her 'cos she's such an indefatigable fighter :( but I think the time has come to take care of the health, no two ways about it.

If you are following breaking news, Hillary Clinton abruptly left the 9-11 memorial today because she was reportedly “overheated.” Her campaign says she is fine now.

You probably wonder if the “overheated” explanation is true – and a non-issue as reported – or an indication of a larger medical condition. I’m blogging to tell you it doesn’t matter. The result is the same.

Here’s why.

If humans were rational creatures, the time and place of Clinton’s “overheating” wouldn’t matter at all. But when it comes to American psychology, there is no more powerful symbol of terrorism and fear than 9-11 . When a would-be Commander-in-Chief withers – literally – in front of our most emotional reminder of an attack on the homeland, we feel unsafe. And safety is our first priority.

Hillary Clinton just became unelectable.

The mainstream media might not interpret today’s events as a big deal. After all, it was only a little episode of overheating. And they will continue covering the play-by-play action until election day. But unless Trump actually does shoot someone on 5th Avenue, he’s running unopposed

My thoughts are that after this situation her family, especially her daughter whom I think is the person Hillary most loves on this earth, has had a good talking to her. They don't want to lose her to this folly.

The secret service, I guess in their efforts to minimize the situation,(and prolly on her orders) were not vigilant enough, and so if one looks at the second video, you can see that she actually fell face down into the back seat of the car. She could not hold herself up anymore. That is serious.

It's sad, and I don't know how they will handle this, prolly just keeping her away from campaigning and those situations.

But I'm sure at this point her family is not willing to chance it anymore, and have told her as much.

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